Weekly Abstract: Get Ladies into Management Positions, Defeat Unconscious Prejudices, Deal with Crew Conflicts, Management Ideas and Insights, 7 Mindset Shifts for HR Managers
Welcome to my weekly roundup of the best of the latest leadership and communication blog posts.
This week's round-up of leadership and communication blogs:
- How to Get More Women in Senior Communication Jobs
By Azurée Montoute-Lewis via PR News (@PRNews)
About 67% of PR professionals are women, but at the CEO level it is only 22%. Here's how to get more women into leadership positions for communication."The representation of women in management positions is essential for the success of a company. Therefore, the inequality between women in PR and women in leading PR roles needs to be taken into account. What can we do? First, companies need to take a more proactive approach to managing talent pipelines. Removing bias from performance management, promotion, and succession planning processes is a start… "
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- How executives can overcome unconscious prejudices in their organizational culture
By Gleb Tsipursky (@Gleb_Tsipursky via @JesseLynStoner), Seapoint Center
Find out what exactly are unconscious biases and what you need to do to address and defeat them in your company.“How can you, as a manager, overcome unconscious prejudices in your corporate culture? First you need to know what it is. Unconscious bias refers to unconscious forms of discrimination and stereotyping based on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, ability, age, etc. Unconscious bias relates to perceptions between different groups and is specific to the society in which we live … "
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- This is how you handle conflicts among your team members with dignity
By Dina Smith and Dennis Adsit, PhD on Fast Company (@FastCompany)
Get one step ahead of team conflict by trying these three proven strategies to cultivate healthy, productive conflict and high performance on your team."Children want to know what the rules are, and they want those rules to be reliably applied between them. Baseball players want to know how the umpire “defines” the strike zone and they want consistent at-bat calls on both teams. And if drivers followed their own rules and the police sporadically come up with violations, our public roads would be a mess… "
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- April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival
By Lead Change Group (@leadchangegroup)
Get insights and tips from 30+ global leadership experts in one place.“Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival in April 2021! We love to share posts from leadership professionals around the world on communication, productivity, development, creativity / inspiration, engagement, and more. "
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- An HR Mindset Manifesto
By Jeff Schwartz (@JL_Schwartz via @TLNT_com), TLNT
Receive 7 key mindset changes to help hiring managers thrive as the future of work evolves."Companies that successfully redefine their work to focus on our human qualities enable their employees to perform four types of activities: identifying invisible problems and opportunities; Developing approaches to solving problems and managing opportunities; Implementation of new approaches; and iterating and learning based on the impact achieved… ”
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